Stuart Henderson wrote on Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 08:45:35PM +0000: > On 2016-02-12, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 03:03:46PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
>>>> I just used this exchange as an example to a friend who buys everything >>>> Apple and then complains when their software is buggy. This is a perfect >>>> example of how a direct negative feedback path makes software converge >>>> quickly to correctness, something you don't get with the big proprietary >>>> players like Apple, Microsoft, etc. >>> That's correct, and it's why we're all here. >>> Make sure your friend understands that we're not trying to provide a >>> drop-in replacement for Apple, to avoid potential disappointment ;-) >> Now *I'm* disappointed. I was looking forward to the OpenBSD equivalent >> of Siri, which I expected would be called Theo. Can you imagine the >> response to "Theo -- where is the nearest good pizza place?". > mg > (esc) x theo But, but,... he neither talks about The Hose And Hound in Inglewood in that mode, nor do they serve pizza! SCNR, Ingo
